This is pathetic. Let me wake you kids up a little bit, because you all seem to have some pretty silly ideas about the apocalypse.

There is no room for gender roles in basic survival.

Gender roles are a luxury of an organized society.

EACH AND EVERY PERSON, be it man or woman, should know everything they need to survive by themselves. That means cooking, cleaning, sewing, shooting, trapping, everything. In a survival situation, you cannot depend on the luxury of a capable partner. You may be separated, one may fall ill, or straight up die.

If you need another half to make a full set, YOU ARE USELESS AS AN INDIVIDUAL.

If you can shoot a rabbit but can't cook it, or if you can stitch wounds but not chop wood, you are a one-legged bastard in an ass-kicking contest.

Each and every one of us will have to be a force unto ourselves. Our long-term survival depends on it.

Any woman can shoot a gun as well as a man, and any man can sew and cook as well as a woman. There is no excuse not to learn. It's not like we'll forget how to do one if we learn to do another.

And as for gender roles? Fuck you with the man-does-hunting woman-does-sewing bullshit. You're a fool if you think an gender-organized regimen is either necessary or advantageous. You're a bigger fool if you think a survival situation will grant you time to plan who does what. You'd both better be equally capable to do whatever needs doing, whenever it needs doing, at a moment's notice.

I consider a woman who can't hunt and a man who can't sew to be equally huge embarrassments.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26339639

bullshit humans are tribal...everyone (not lazy ass) including the old have a place a job to do. it is about survival of us not one or two..